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Re: YYMMDD (was: Re: Láadan)

From:taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...>
Date:Friday, December 13, 2002, 7:36
* daniel.andreasson@vpc.se said on 2002-12-12 14:48:29 +0100
> tal wrote: > > > > Yep. They also mark dates as year/month/day in that order. > > > Sensible of them. > > Of *them*? Don't you do that in Norway?
(Is the affirmative here "yes" or "no"? Always forgets, N. has a third word "jo" to answer affirmatively here.) Norwegian standard is dd.mm.(cc)yy. Today would be 13.12.02 or 13.12.2002. Taking a few dates... Dec 12, 13 and 14 and Nov 13 of the same year, and sorting them with a standard stringsort thus yields Norwegian: ISO: 12.12.2002 2002-11-13 13.11.2002 2002-12-12 13.12.2002 2002-12-13 14.12.2002 2002-12-14 Guess which I think is better :) I've been programming a frontend in PHP lately, and the date-support is completely <censored>. It guesses dates from strings as described in <http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar-1.12/html_chapter/tar_7.html> and is rather <censored> and of course US-centric. It doesn't support the Norwegian date-format at all, among other things. Now, the ironic thing with PHP is of course that one of its primary creators is a Norwegian (from my own uni. even!)
> Is it just us in Sweden plus Hungarians who use the YYMMDD order? > Are all other countries insane?
Well, I think a two-digit year is quite insane, so there ;p t., waiting for this thread to change it a "date-format(s) for my conlang"

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